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View text, gazetteer and maps of early London from Volume III

The Historic Towns Trust has made available the contents of Volume III of the series, available to download as PDFs. If you experience difficulties downloading the PDFs using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser, we suggest you try using Google Chrome. The atlas contains:

Contents and abbreviations

The text, in six chapters

The gazetteer, in three parts

Maps of the City of London from prehistoric times to c.1520

An explanation of what a gazetteer is and how to use it can be found here.

The scales of the maps as printed are as follows:

The Situation of London Scale 1:250 000

The London Area in Pre-Roman Times Scale 1:143 000

Roman London Scale 1:5000

City of London c.1270 Scale 1:5000

City of London c.1520 (Maps 1 to 4) Scale 1:2500

Wards c.1520 Scale 1:5000

Parishes c.1520 Scale 1:5000

Note that these are the scales at which they were printed in the atlas (and hence compiled for reproduction at that scale), and will not be the scales if you print them out. If you zoom into the PDF, you can't get out any more detail than was on the original maps!

Map of London in 1520

The maps of London as it appeared c.1520 (maps 1 to 4 in the atlas) has been updated and digitised and will be published as a completely new edition in May 2018. The original maps will remain available free of charge on our web pages, but the new edition of the map has been substantially improved and revised to take into account the huge amount of archaeology and historical research that has taken place since the original map was published in 1989.

Full details of the new Map of Tudor London 1520 (available for £8.99 or less) can be found here .